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Wadcast# 15 Decolonizing the CurriculumRecording of a panel discussion chaired by co-editors of 'Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum', Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee. The other panel contributors were Natalya Din-Kariuki, Sloan Mahone, and William Ghosh. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum, an Open Access collaborative volume, aims to address issues of curriculum diversification and change from a global perspective.You can provide feedback on Wadcast at https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/wadcastYou can listen to past episodes of Wadcast on all major podcast platforms, including Apple and Spotify.2025-01-281h 03
New Books in Politics and PolemicsAnkhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP, 2023), jointly edited by Professor Ankhi Mukherjee and Professor Ato Quayson, is a major collection that aims to address these issues from a global perspective. An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reform from sp...2024-01-281h 04
New Books in Big IdeasAnkhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP, 2023), jointly edited by Professor Ankhi Mukherjee and Professor Ato Quayson, is a major collection that aims to address these issues from a global perspective. An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reform from sp...2024-01-281h 02
New Books in EducationAnkhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP, 2023), jointly edited by Professor Ankhi Mukherjee and Professor Ato Quayson, is a major collection that aims to address these issues from a global perspective. An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reform from sp...2024-01-281h 04
New Books in Critical TheoryAnkhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP, 2023), jointly edited by Professor Ankhi Mukherjee and Professor Ato Quayson, is a major collection that aims to address these issues from a global perspective. An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reform from sp...2024-01-281h 04
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP PodcastAnkhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP, 2023), jointly edited by Professor Ankhi Mukherjee and Professor Ato Quayson, is a major collection that aims to address these issues from a global perspective. An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reform from sp...2024-01-281h 04
New Books in Intellectual HistoryAnkhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP, 2023), jointly edited by Professor Ankhi Mukherjee and Professor Ato Quayson, is a major collection that aims to address these issues from a global perspective. An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reform from sp...2024-01-281h 04
New Books in Higher EducationAnkhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP, 2023), jointly edited by Professor Ankhi Mukherjee and Professor Ato Quayson, is a major collection that aims to address these issues from a global perspective. An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reform from sp...2024-01-281h 02
New Books in Literary StudiesAnkhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies, the demonstrations accelerated the scrutiny of the literary curriculum, the need to diversify the curriculum, and the need to incorporate more Black writers. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP, 2023), jointly edited by Professor Ankhi Mukherjee and Professor Ato Quayson, is a major collection that aims to address these issues from a global perspective. An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reform from sp...2024-01-281h 04
Penumbr(a)cast - The Other SceneNew Psychoanalytic Spaces 2 (Unseen City), with Ankhi MukherjeeThis episode's interview with Ankhi Mukherjee focuses on her recent book, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor. It discusses Mukherjee's research on Freud's free clinics and their afterlives in different cities and projects that make psychoanalytic interventions in marginalized communities. We discuss the roles literary criticism can play in the work of these clinics, as well as the urgent need for spaces for subjectivity that are not limited to economic elites and that extend beyond the couch.Many thanks to Kellen Corrallo for editorial work on the episode.2023-07-171h 00
Trinity Long Room HubLiterature & Resistance | Unseen City: Ankhi Mukherjee in Conversation with Ian RobertsonFrom September 27, 2022 | In the first event of the new academic year in the Literature & Resistance series, the Trinity Centre for Resistance Studies and the Trinity Long Room Hub welcomed Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford, to discuss her book Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Professor Mukherjee’s ground-breaking research combines literary and cultural criticism with clinical case studies to examine the relationship between global cities, poverty, and psychoanalysis. Drawing on extensive, collaborative research in six global cities, and reading works of contemporary world literature which explore issu...2023-01-0940 min
The IntellectualSocial Psychoanalysis Podcast: High Theory (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Social PsychoanalysisPub date: 2022-07-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAnkhi Mukherjee talks about that looks at the subject of psychoanalysis as a product of social and cultural processes, and thereby reorients concepts of parental and familial bonds, trauma, coping mechanisms and so on. The conversation focuses on her recent book on the subject, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, which studies community-based psychiatry and how it serves the working classes in th...2022-08-0318 min
High TheorySocial PsychoanalysisAnkhi Mukherjee talks about that looks at the subject of psychoanalysis as a product of social and cultural processes, and thereby reorients concepts of parental and familial bonds, trauma, coping mechanisms and so on. The conversation focuses on her recent book on the subject, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, which studies community-based psychiatry and how it serves the working classes in three global cities.Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in English at Wadham College. Her most recent book is ...2022-07-2218 min
Novel Dialogue2.4 In Medias Res: Kamila Shamsie and Ankhi Mukherjee (AV)
Acclaimed novelist Kamila Shamsie joins esteemed Oxford scholar Ankhi Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion of literature and politics. Ankhi raises the unique challenges facing postcolonial and specifically Muslim writers in the wake of 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan, including the pressure to become commentators in times of crisis (our episode was recorded in August as American troops withdrew from Afghanistan). Kamila reserves the right of mental freedom in the face of such expectations. Early in her career, she turned down the opportunity to become a “professional Muslim” and never looked back. Yet, as Ankhi points out, Kamila’s novels from B...2021-10-2843 min
Novel Dialogue2.4 In Medias Res: Kamila Shamsie and Ankhi Mukherjee (AV)Acclaimed novelist Kamila Shamsie joins esteemed Oxford scholar Ankhi Mukherjee for a wide-ranging discussion of literature and politics. Ankhi raises the unique challenges facing postcolonial and specifically Muslim writers in the wake of 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan, including the pressure to become commentators in times of crisis (our episode was recorded in August as American troops withdrew from Afghanistan). Kamila reserves the right of mental freedom in the face of such expectations. Early in her career, she turned down the opportunity to become a “professional Muslim” and never looked back. Yet, as Ankhi points out, Kamila’s novels from B...2021-10-2845 min
LiterateEpisode 15: Books of the Century Season FinaleWhat makes a "book of the century"? And who gets to decide which books make the cut? Over the past two seasons of Literate, we have been asking these questions while reading through the New York Public Library's 1995 list of the books of the century. Each episode, we explore one book from that list and why it matters. This week, however, we do something a little different. We look back over our episodes and discuss the criteria that have emerged for what makes a book of the century. Plus, we tackle some tricky questions about the value of literary...2021-05-2041 min
Freud Museum London: Psychoanalysis PodcastsFreud Out LoudCivilization and its Discontents: A Marathon Reading
The Centre for Creative and Critical Thought at the University of Sussex together with the Freud Museum London are pleased to announce a marathon reading of Sigmund Freud’s classic text, Civilization and its Discontents, at the Freud Museum on Sunday 14 June.
Civilization and Its Discontents, written in 1929, remains the definitive text on human destructiveness. As news of wars around the globe, appalling brutality, religious conflict and sexual violence continue unabated, the relevance of this work is undeniable. ‘Men are not gentle creatures’ Freud wrote, ‘but ...creatures whose instinct [is] aggr...2020-03-204h 06
Asian Studies CentrePsychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of FreedomPsychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom - Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap Psychoanalysis of the Oppressed, A Practice of Freedom: Free Clinics in Urban India
Professor Ankhi Mukherjee
Mental Health in India – Bridging the Gap
30-31 October 2019
St Antony’s College, Oxford2020-01-2037 min
Great Writers Inspire at HomeAminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of LoveAminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity.2017-08-2559 minGreat Writers Inspire at HomeAminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of LoveAminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity.2017-08-2559 min
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the HumanitiesLiterature and the Public GoodPart of the Book at Lunchtime series What is the public value of literary studies? What is the justification for literature at the present time? Literature and the Public Good looks at literature's value and its public presence, and its contribution to the public good. The book's author, Professor Rick Rylance (School of Advanced Study) will explore the issues raised with Jane Hiddleston (Professor of Literatures in French, University of Oxford), Timothy Michael (Tutorial Fellow in English Literature, University of Oxford), Ankhi Mukherjee (Professor of English and World Literatures, University of Oxford), and Helen Small (Professor of English Literature, University...2017-02-0148 min
English Graduate Conference 2012What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics.2012-07-1919 min
Great Writers InspireWhat is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics.2012-07-1900 minGreat Writers InspireWhat is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, Wadham college, Oxford, speaks to the question 'What is a Classic?' by examining the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics.2012-07-1919 minGreat Writers InspireWhat is a Great Writer? An academic panel discusses the question.In this panel discussion from the Great Writers Inspire Engage Event workshop, Dr Seamus Perry, Dr Margaret Kean, Professor Peter McDonald and Dr Ankhi Mukherjee discuss what we mean when we talk about greatness in writing. Seamus Perry chooses Samuel Taylor Coleridge, inspired as he is by the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and its myriad possible interpretations. Margaret Kean chooses John Milton, who used his Paradise Lost to position himself in the canon of great writers during his lifetime. Peter McDonald talks about who decides who is considered to be a great writer, suggesting literary agents, prize judges, editors...2012-05-1500 minGreat Writers InspireWhat is a Great Writer? An academic panel discusses the question.In this panel discussion from the Great Writers Inspire Engage Event workshop, Dr Seamus Perry, Dr Margaret Kean, Professor Peter McDonald and Dr Ankhi Mukherjee discuss what we mean when we talk about greatness in writing. Seamus Perry chooses Samuel Taylor Coleridge, inspired as he is by the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and its myriad possible interpretations. Margaret Kean chooses John Milton, who used his Paradise Lost to position himself in the canon of great writers during his lifetime. Peter McDonald talks about who decides who is considered to be a great writer, suggesting literary agents, prize judges, editors...2012-05-1548 min
Santiniketan PodcastEpisode 118 : Global Kalor DokanGlobal Adda with Sujoy Dhara, Tamojit Ray, Chirajyoti Deb, Piyali Palit, Tapas Basu, Bodhirupa Ganguly, Self and Abhijit Bannerjee. Songs by Ankhi, Chittaranjan Deb, Ramkumar Chatterjee, Basabi Dutta Roy, Amar Pal, Hemanta Mukherjee.2008-11-3057 min